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- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
point: Something has changed in the last few years. We've always hired young people from elite colleges and universities and started them as Analysts. For many years we found that after six or seven years with us and one or more... View Details
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The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building
The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building makes two main theoretical contributions to the scholarship on credit markets and institutional development. First, the book demonstrates that opportunistic lenders can take... View Details
- 08 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Who Rises to Power in American Business?
important from the 1970s through the end of the century, and as a result, we have seen a massive proliferation of MBA programs. Despite the significant leveling of undergraduate education, the proliferation of the MBA has, in some ways, functioned as another test for... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Helping Yelp Create More Accurate Reviews
Some reviewers are always critical and leave worse reviews on average; others might always be positive, fawning over every restaurant's spaghetti or tuna sub. Still others are erratic, showing little predictability in how they review. Yelp's cadre of so-called View Details
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
find that being tied through elite sociopolitical networks to the regime in power significantly increased the rate at which South Korean companies formed cross-border strategic alliances, but also that being tied through View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 17
particular, we find that elite institutions in Vietnam encourage the construction of broader policy-making coalitions, have more competitive selection processes, and place more constraints on executive decision making than exists by way... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy
largely autonomous national organizations presided over by a cadre of 1,500 elite expatriate managers who championed the country-oriented approach. But as competition emerged in the 1960s and 1970s from Japanese companies that were more... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Identify Emerging Market Opportunities
low-income countries. The high-quality firms that do exist focus on top-level searches, so companies must scramble to identify middle-level managers, engineers, or floor supervisors. Engineering colleges, business schools, and training institutions have proliferated,... View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders
difference, and willingness to sacrifice.” Simons says the command-and-control format and life-or-death pressure of the military impart important lessons fast. “We are often at our best when we are stressed. In business, we call that stress-testing, and in the... View Details
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
provides limited insight into how women build legitimacy through their self-narratives. Our findings from an inductive, qualitative study of 40 women who rose to elite levels in corporations or entrepreneurial ventures during the latter... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Smartphone Addiction
world's most elite and demanding professional service firms—The Boston Consulting Group (BCG)—could work together to ensure that they each could truly disconnect from work for a scheduled unit of time each week. This modest experiment... View Details
Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
still emerging and unproven? Or is it simply taken for granted, its value "proven" by the apparent demand? Download the paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=44034 Developing the Guts of a GUT (Grand Unified Theory): Elite... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Nitin Nohria: Why US Competitiveness Matters
government blames business for acting irresponsibly. Much of the public blames the rich and elite for exploiting everyone else. Parties on each side work hard to amplify these accusations, but their efforts do nothing to help solve the... View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria
- 23 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization
party and governmental elite and among a new class of entrepreneurs. Surprisingly, Chinese mercantilism is also widening the income gap in Western trading partners. For example, Wal-Mart, the largest and fastest-growing trader with China,... View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
- 14 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Countries on the Cusp: The Power of Nationalism
historian here at Harvard. But no matter how you describe it, there is a deep ambivalence within Russia's political elite about what Russia should be doing in relation to the rest of the region, whether Russia should be expending its own... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2003
- What Do You Think?
Are Conditions Right for the Next Accounting Scandal?
to arise periodically in the future than it did in the past? Does it suggest an opportunity for a would-be fifth or sixth entrant to the global elite of accounting firms? Will such an organization, probably already in existence, be able... View Details
- 29 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 29, 2008
launched School of Engineering and Applied Sciences is faced with a range of opportunities and challenges as he presides over the launching of a new school of engineering at Harvard University. His opportunities include an ample endowment, a small but View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 4
this time. Read the paper: http://hbr.org/2011/10/the-cure-for-horrible-bosses/ar/1 Golfing Alone? Corporations, Elites and Nonprofit Growth in 100 American Communities Authors:Christopher Marquis, Gerald F. Davis, and Mary Ann Glynn... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Peeling Back the Global Brand
higher quality products Global status—the idea that transnational brands confer an elite status on the buyer Country-of-origin quality—the idea that "a food chain" of production means that higher-quality goods are created in the... View Details
- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
most of these minorities fled or were killed. In other words, the country’s entrepreneurial elite were decimated. It proved a lengthy and challenging process over subsequent decades to build a new Muslim national business class employing... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne